PUEBLO COMMUNITY COLLEGE NURSING NUR 211 Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Supplemental Learning Guide Course Objectives * Relate the minimum requirements for the course. * Illustrate the use of competencies for learning. * Formulate own needs and responsibilities relative to meeting course competencies. * Relate course/clinical assignments and evaluation * Distinguish how the major concepts (see Nursing Student Handbook) of the program are affected by the variety of
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(Bench Assessment) Heritage assessment Pamela Taylor Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion Nursing 429 Leslie Minjarez March 18, 2015 (Bench Assessment) Heritage assessment In the seventies, growing up in the inner-city ghetto of Baltimore, Maryland lived in a dilapidated, rat, and roach infested home. In addition, attended public schools, monopoly of corner store that sold unhealthy foods and observing on the streets men shooting dice for money. As nurses, we should
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your health and learn what you need to do, and when you need to do it, to keep your body running at tiptop shape. After all, when you buy a car, you maintain it according to schedule. So why not have a similar schedule to maintain your body (Danoff 2013)? This statement makes a great point when addressing health maintenance. Health maintenance should be a priority for all of us, it allows us to do preventive medicine such as annual physicals, vaccines, safe sex, and a huge array of other health preventions
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professionals to assess and empower individuals in the self-management of this illness. For the purposes of this case study, health assessment by nurses was defined by Fuller and Schaller-Ayers (2000) as a process of systematically collecting and analyzing data to make judgments about health and life processes of individuals, families, and communities. In addition, the assessment included the integration of theory, diagnosis, intervention, and outcomes into practice and the use of theory to make decisions
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Assessment of Non-acute Health and Social Services in Ponchatoula, Louisiana Laura K. Ogden Southeastern Louisiana University College of Nursing and Health Sciences School of Nursing NLAB 334 October 29, 2014 Assessment of Non-acute Health and Social Services in Ponchatoula, Louisiana The community assessed was Ponchatoula, Louisiana. The focus of the assessment was non-acute health and social services. The community-as-partner model
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Heritage Assessment Heritage is who we are, where we come from, it’s our history. Traditionally the word heritage means one back ground or tradition. Each individual’s heritage varies between different cultures and consists of determination of one’s ethnic, religious, and cultural background (Spector, 2009). The heritage assessment tool helps healthcare professionals evaluate someone’s physical, mental, and spiritual beliefs which in turn helps with determining traditional health methods such
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Process Kenneth L. Harris University of Phoenix Community and Family Nursing NSG 420 June 22, 2015 Kimberly Lewis RN, MSN-Ed Theory and the Nursing Process The theoretical basis for public and community nurses began in the nineteenth century with Florence Nightingale. Nightingale believed in the prevention and surveillance of diseases. She further believed that a disease was more prevalent in poor environments. She proved that good health was more prevalent with a good environment for instance providing
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Assessment and Diagnosis Student’s Name University Affiliation Introduction Lehigh County is one of the counties located in the Lehigh Valley and has a population of more than three hundred thousand. The large population ensures that there is a large field for making assessment of the health needs of the individuals in the County. The assessment in the county can be done using the demographic and the epidemiological data in the process of identifying the health risks. The population’s information
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Personal Health Assessment The six dimensions of health are: physical wellness, emotional wellness, intellectual wellness, spiritual wellness, interpersonal and social wellness, and environmental or planetary wellness. I would have to say that out of these six dimensions my strongest three would have to be emotional wellness, spiritual wellness, and interpersonal and social wellness. Being not in any particular order I am going to discuss why I feel these are my three strongest dimensions of health
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Introduction The placement agency where I obtain my internship hours is at St. John Health Care Services located at 1333 Palmdale Road Victorville, CA 92392; (760) 241-4917. The agency’s website is www.stjohnofgodhcs.org. The agency provides services in the following areas a 90 day inpatient residential recovery program for men, women and parents and their children ages 0-5. The agency offers a detoxification program a seven day social model program. The outpatient program provide treatment services
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